Complete Story
08/07/2024
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | August 7
News
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- Fighting the August Heat: Elder Care and Hydration
- Managing Power Outages in Healthcare Facilities: A Quick Checklist
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Utilization of Telemedicine to Supervise Medical Students in the Post-Acute/Long-Term Care Setting
- JAMDA: Improving Nursing Home Safety through Adoption of a Practical Resilient Health Care Approach
- Vaccine patterns among older adults with Guillain–Barré syndrome and matched comparators, 2006–2019
Research Reports/White Papers
Podcasts/Webinars
- Social Isolation, Loneliness and Dementia, August 8, 2024, 10:00 AM ET
- What Makes A Successful Vaccine Campaign: Thoughts from the Field, August 27, 2024, 12:00 PM
- Health on the Hill
News/News Analysis
- Long-term care docs warn why better oversight of diagnostic testing is needed
- CMS increases abilities to fine nursing homes, hikes Medicare pay by 4.2 percent
- CMS Entrenching ‘Old Covid Scars’ With Expansion of Civil Monetary Penalties, Starving Nursing Homes of Much-Needed Resources
- US spends ‘significantly less’ on long-term care than other countries
- Government support of dementia caregiving across the continuum important: poll
- Alzheimer’s care, quality of life improve with innovative immersion room
- State’s Reduction of Nursing Home Inspection Backlogs Can be Model for Others
- $5 million grant expands nurse aides’ growth and Oklahoma Dementia Care Network
